As every year, ITU is organizing the
Facilitation Meeting on WSIS Action Line C6, the Enabling
Environment on 10 May, as part of the WSIS Forum 2010. This
annual event will be marked by the mid-term review of the
implementation process. On one hand, the event will look
back at what has been done since the WSIS Tunis Summit in
2005 and on the other hand, it will draw up the path towards
the target date of 2015, set for achieving the WSIS goals.
Since WSIS, ITU has been promoting
broadband as the key to economic and social development,
providing opportunities for developing and least-developed
countries to leapfrog and join the digital world. Recently,
ITU initiated a global campaign to recognize broadband as
basic utility, as it has become as essential as electricity,
water and roads. Moreover, as Dr Hamadoun Touré, ITU
Secretary General has noted that: '' The year 2010 marks the
beginning of what must become the decade of broadband''.
As the lead facilitator for Action Line
C6, ITU advocates in favor of policy and regulatory
incentives to enable broadband infrastructure deployment,
new services and applications and content development. In
the light of this, the theme for the 5th Facilitation
meeting is: "Broadband policy at a crossroads: How to
achieve enhanced collaboration among stakeholders".
The 2010 Action Line C6 meeting will
involve regulators, policy-makers, industry and civil
society to exchange experiences and best practices in
shaping effective policies and creating an enabling
environment for broadband, with a particular emphasis on
developing and least-developed countries. The meeting will
feature panelists representing multiple stakeholder groups
and will be driven by stakeholders’ interventions. ITU will
capitalize on this opportunity to capture positive synergies
among stakeholders and build on the momentum of countries’
broadband initiatives in WSIS implementation.
Speakers and panelists:
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High-level
speakers - Sami Al-Basheer Al-Morshid,
Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT),
International Telecommunication Union (Opening remarks) -
Dr. Mongi Hamdi, Head, Science, Technology and ICT Branch/DTL,
UNCTAD; Head of the Secretariat of the United Nations
Commission on Science and Technology for Development (Key
note)
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Panelists
1. Fabio del Alisal Sánchez, Director International
Department of CMT, Spain
2. Dr. Krisnadi Iwan, Commissioner, Indonesian
Telecommunication Regulatory Authority
3. Pierre Lucante, Head of Sector Project, ICT for Development, GTZ, Germany
4. Gabriel Solomon, Senior Vice-President, GSMA
5. Rajesh Aggarwal, Chief, Business & Trade Policy,
International Trade Center, Geneva
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Moderatorr
- Mario Maniewicz, Chief, Policies & Strategies Department,
BDT, ITU
Documents
*English & French interpretation will be made available.
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